It’s the DH. Casual fans don’t know what it is but it isn’t baseball. I’ve given up.
Per usual, will watch the first few weeks and then wake me in September
I haven’t watched the game since the Red Sox were in the World Series
Watching insufferable ESPN broadcasts was impossible for me. 90 percent of the MLB games I’ve followed have been radio broadcasts. I like the Reds and we have a good radio crew.
It will be a difficult season for Brewer’s radio fans.
Hockey is fast and the TV (Android) app can't keep up with the video feed, so it's full of jitters and poor picture quality. Sometimes it just crashes the TV and everything gets a reboot. The app for iOS runs great. Go figure.
The internet is full of complaints like mine and ESPN (Disney) has a crappy development program that makes their Android application a POS.
I hope baseball fans get a better service platform than ESPN can offer.
I’d rather watch The Savannah Bananas.
The kind of people that enjoy baseball are the same people that have gotten rid of cable long ago. No ESPN.
Woke vs woke - DKDC. Let ‘em both croak.
Screw ESPN, a vile bunch of woke East Coast liberal sacks of shit.
The day that company dies will be a day of celebration .
MLB better come up with an enormous contract to replace the $5oo m they were getting from ESPN, to fund Soto at $50 m /year for 10 years. I wonder what Disney stock does on the news.
I’m a huge baseball fan, but I buy the MLB Network season package and watch and listen to all the different TV and radio broadcasts around the league. Could care less about ESPN.
I grew up playing baseball, from age 9 thru 19, then in the military from 19 thru 41, it was baseball plus fast pitch softball in my Army days. I umpired baseball and officiated football and basketball at the military level, high school, semi-pro baseball and a few Jr. college games. I was a baseball junky. But now, I could care less for baseball. Cannot stand the current players and game. I don’t even watch college football or the NFL much anymore. Simply am bored by it all. When a 45- to 75-year-old man gets all upset by an 18-year-old high school player jumping commitments for college, hey get a life dudes!! As for the NBA channel also known as ESPN, they can go to hell. I hate ESPN and I am one who watched ESPN from the first week they were on back in the day. Berman and Tom Eves (or however his last name was spelled; the guy who I think drowned swimming I think) were really good. But now, all it is, is the NBA or college leagues even out of season. Just grew tired of getting mad at some guy I would ever meet, screwing up. I could do that at work. And, who wants to watch a bunch of mega millionaires play and me funding their lifestyles. Nope, sports no longer rule my life. At my age, you find your time important and not wasting it on that stuff. Just one guy’s opinion.
I love baseball, but I’m not paying $16+ to watch my local team.
I suspect everything will move to MLB.TV, and you will purchase packages to watch your team.
Lol. Well which is it?
Looking forward to watching Spring Training Games from today.
ESPN is no longer a Sports Network.
The problem the MLB has is too many contracts and not enough oversight by the league to get the best games on one of the national contracts. I remember a few seasons ago when Shohei was on a path to get most home runs and lead the ERA race, something that hadn’t been done since Ruth. So I wanted to watch Angels games, especially if he was pitching, go looking around the cable dial... nobody nationally showing the Angels game. The best most interesting story to happen to the sport in literally 100 years and they couldn’t get the games away from the Angels’ local broadcaster and onto national TV.
If you’re ESPN you don’t need that in your life. Why should they spend time and money promoting the game when they can’t get the interesting games on their network? Guarantee those games would have had the best of the season, might have even beaten the World Series... except they didn’t get that chance.
season too long, too many games